Writing · since 2015
One argument, made in different rooms for eleven years.
The hard part of enterprise technology is never the technology. It is who controls it and whether it reaches production. The vocabulary has moved from big data to blockchain to MLOps to sovereign AI. The argument has not.
01The newsletter
Own Your AI, every second Thursday.
One framework from the book or one field note from a regulated deployment, then the fortnight's news run through the Sovereignty Test. Six minutes. Subscribe on LinkedIn.
Five AI contracts, read for the morning after.
What five contracts actually promise when a provider walks away, and the one line none of them has.
Issue 2 · 8 October 2026One provider cut off two models for every customer, on a US directive.
The off switch, exercised: a national sovereign cloud and Katonic's own platform scored on the same six statements.
Issue 1 · 24 September 2026Is your AI sovereign, or just a subscription?
The framework under its first name: a bank in Frankfurt, four dimensions, six statements and a 14 out of 30.
02Essays
Recent pieces.
- 24 Sep 2026 · KatonicThe AI Act clock restarted. It did not stop.Brussels moved the high-risk deadline. The six statements did not move with it.
- 18 Sep 2026 · KatonicSix steps, and not one of them is a modelThe gap between a served model and an agent doing real work.
- 7 Jan 2026 · KatonicThe Control Test: how to know if your AI is actually sovereignThe first publication of the framework now called the Sovereignty Test.
- 7 Jan 2026 · KatonicWhy NVIDIA Rubin matters for sovereign AIWhat a new GPU generation changes for a nation with a fixed power feed.
- 15 Oct 2025 · LinkedInChina Is Winning the AI War While America Sells Fake SovereigntyWhy true AI sovereignty requires more than government procurement.
- 6 Oct 2025 · LinkedIn
- 31 Oct 2024 · Forbes
- 6 Sep 2024 · Forbes
- 9 Dec 2024 · LinkedInBuilding permission-aware copilotsThe access argument, a year before the agents arrived.
- 2022 to 2025 · nasscomFifteen pieces on the nasscom communityFrom the MLOps years to agents, for the trade body of India's technology industry.
- 2026 · Lead GreenHow much energy does an AI query use?And three more posts as editor of the Lead Green index: watt-hours per million tokens, the idle GPU, what a million tokens costs.
- 29 Jun 2017 · LinkedInDeploying blockchain pilots won't be easy despite successful POCsThe same case as the 2026 posts about agents: a pilot only counts if it is a production pilot.
The full archive, 2015 to today, is on LinkedIn.
03Books and papers
Own Your AI
With Vinod Bijlani, March 2026. The book behind the Sovereignty Test, the Sovereignty Maturity Index and the Sovereignty Certificate.
Building an AI Center of Excellence
With Ahmed Sulaiman, April 2025. The operating-model companion: twelve chapters on foundations, strategy, governance and scaling.
- Lodged 2 Oct 2026Submission to "Getting it right: Building AI infrastructure that works for Australia"Katonic AI's submission to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet's consultation, written and lodged by Prem Naraindas.